This release note provides information about the February 2025 (Epoch 116) release of the AddressBase Islands products. These products were released to customers on 06 February 2025.
Known issues will now be displayed on the 'Product Known Data Issues' subpages under each product.
Record counts
Product
Full Supply Record Count
Change-Only Update Record Count
AddressBase Plus Islands
1,154,084
3,135
AddressBase Premium Islands
See rows below
See rows below
Street
48,727
179
Street Descriptor
48,727
55
BLPU
1,238,230
4,281
Classification
1,238,230
2,461
LPI
1,247,950
3,075
Organisation
38,827
250
Delivery Point Address
965,970
1,124
Application Cross Ref.
1,304,112
2,138
Successor
0
0
Changed records
If you receive a Change-Only Update (COU) supply for your AddressBase Islands product, you will receive Insert, Update and Delete records within the supplied file. The following tables detail the count of these records.
AddressBase Plus Islands
Change Type
Count
Inserts
1,315
Updates
1,539
Deletes
281
AddressBase Premium Islands
AddressBase Premium Islands Table
Inserts
Updates
Deletes
Street
52
126
1
Street Descriptor
52
2
1
BLPU
1,535
2,515
231
Classification
1,535
695
231
LPI
1,544
1,300
231
Organisation
55
109
86
Delivery Point Address
886
143
95
Application Cross Ref.
1,499
297
342
Successor
0
0
0
It's important that COUs are processed with Deletes first, then Inserts and Updates. This is to ensure that updates are applied in the correct order. Further guidance on this can be found in 'Working with COU data' in the AddressBase Getting Started Guide.
Source data currency
The following information relates to the currency of the source data used in the creation of Epoch 116:
Data Source
Date
Pointer (Northern Ireland)
02 January 2025
DigiMap (Channel Islands)
02 January 2025
Isle of Man
02 January 2025
Royal Mail PAF
02 January 2025
Next release
The next release of AddressBase Islands products, Epoch 117, is scheduled for 20 March 2025.
